eBooks on Display at Artspace Diabolus

A recent addition to the many exhibits at Artspace Diabolus is a soon to be opened display dedicated to the many eBooks published by CARP. I popped in for a brief preview and chatted with CARP co-founder, Velazquez Bonetto. He told me that  the group has published sixty-five eBooks over the three plus years of their existence and the book covers will be on display. As a plus, each of them are "clickable". Doing so will open the viewers browser and take you to the eBook for you to peruse then or at your leisure should you book mark the site. Vela also mentioned that the exhibit will open soon, he was putting the finishing touches to one floor of the exhibit when I left. There is no date yet for the opening, so stand by … it'll definitely be worth the trip over to see what this group has accomplished and documented.

eBooks at Artspace Diabolus

IAM Exhibit at Benvolio

I stopped in at Benvolio, to view an exhibit created by CARP/Diabolus for IBM. The artists featured include; Velazquez Bonetto,Josina Burgess,Caravaggio Bonetto, JonnPano Novi and Junivers Stockholm. An opening for IBM employees had been held a few short weeks ago and it is now open to the virtual world inhabitants of Second Life. In a note about the exhibit CARP co-founder Josina Burgess explained that, "This exhibition is formed in such a way that it allows people to get a idea how to become a artwork in RL from SL". Four floors of art, plus music written especially for the exhibit. I highly recommend a visit when you have a chance.

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3D Art Exhibition by CARP in Collaboration with IBM International

I read the note card with great interest when it and I arrived in Second Life. The message was from Josina Burgess, co-founder of CARP (Cybernetic Art Research Projects) along with Velazques Bonetto and they were seeking hosts for an upcoming event. The group is well known in Second Life for its productions, which include; "The Wall" a unique interpretation of the Pink Floyd classic, "The Rings" a rock opera and a remake of "Metropolis" the silent film classic and the first science fiction movie in Second Life. The group recently put together another special production, "Alien Bolero" of which I had the opportunity to view shortly before its opening several weeks ago. I walked away in complete awe after witnessing something like I'd never ever seen before in Second Life. I've enclosed the notecard below with a few edits (Please forgive me Josi).

Hello Friends,

This is a call for hosts:

CARP in Collaboration with IBM International CARP has built (Velazquez did) an exhibition in another way then what is normally done in SL.

This exhibition is formed in such a way that it allows people to get an idea of how to become an artwork in RL from SL. CARP is known for the way they build events and exhibitions so here it's something new again of course. Four floors with RL art shown in SL in a special way. It's to research another form of showing art or items. Not through a website but in a 3D world. Paintings, Digital Art works, 360 degree Panorama's, music especially written andn performed for CARP projects. Two big particle theatres with life V-Jazz (virtual jazz) performances and Prims dancing in perfect synchronicity.

Worldwide this exhibition together with the Schoeffer Tower Cybernetic Tour, will open on December 22th.
This means everywhere where IBM is.

Of course we will host ourselves for the European employees of IBM and all SL folks that are interested. We surely will need people that are interested to be a host for, Europe (we have hosts), China, Japan, USA ( we have a host), Australia, Canada, Africa (for India we have already 2 hosts).

If you are interested to be a host during this event, please do IM me or Velazquez Bonetto, because we will welcome you of course but you also need to learn how to start the systems, like the cybernetic tour needs to be started up as well several automatic systems in the exhibition.

We will make a time plan to cover the time zones and surely some meetings between you and us are needed so you as a host know exactly what to do.

I know we ask much, dedication, and we need to count on you, so you must be sure you can do this, but it's also a challenge to experiment this way of exhibiting and showing it to people that have specially logged in, made an avatar, and give them an idea of what's possible.

We hope to hear from you soon,

CARP
Velazquez Bonetto
Josina Burgess

The Last Performance of "The Wall" on Sunday

In a group announcement, Josina Burgess sent word that the last scheduled performance of "The Wall" is scheduled for the Sunday at 3 pm PDT/SLT. In the notice Ms Burgess wrote: "We hope that this will become a fantastic evening with 3 sims full of you, our friends and supporters. We are thinking about a spectacular after party of course!"

If you've not had a chance to see this show, I highly recommend you take advantage of this opportunity. You will not be disappointed.

Venue Right
Venue Left
Venue Center

Artist Presentations Scheduled at Rinascimento Virtuale 2 Exhibition

Poster Exhibition Rinascimento Virtuale 2

The exhibition Rinascimento Virtuale 2 opened a week ago and I had the opportunity to stop by a few days afterward to look around and thoroughly enjoyed seeing the work of good friends shellina Winkler and Solkide Auer as well as MillaMilla Noel's. Late on Thursday Velazquez Bonetto messaged me and said that, "all eight artists will do a presentation and the events start on Saturday" he then added: "with the new emoticon performance from Luce Laval and Evaluna Sperber with live music from Al Hofmann". Here's the schedule of artists and presentation dates:


Saturday, February 6th Evaluna Sperber @ 1:30 PM
Sunday, February 7th Lucian Iwish
Monday, February 8th Arcana Jansma
Tuesday, February 9th Shellina Winkler and Solkide Auer
Wednesday, February 10th Eros Boa @ 1 PM
Thursday, February 11th MillaMilla Noel @ 1:30 PM
Friday, February 12th a performance of The Wall
Saturday, February 13th merlino Mayo - Closing Event